Revolution PAC has been hacked.

roxic27 said:
LinkedIn and eharmony got hacked yesterday too and millions of passwords were stolen. Also on downrightnow.com it shows all the major websites (google, yahoo, facebook, youtube, twitter) have all been down at some point in the last few hours. I don't know that a hack has anything to do with this, but I thought it odd they were all down today at some point. I haven't seen that before.

Anyhow, probably totally unrelated, just thought it was worth mentioning.
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Things that make one go...hmmmmmmmmm.
 
Why would a Middle-Eastern hacker hack a Ron Paul website? He's the only candidate that wants to get us out of the Middle East.
 
mello said:
Why would a Middle-Eastern hacker hack a Ron Paul website? He's the only candidate that wants to get us out of the Middle East.
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Someone said it was a Saudi.. maybe Saudi's like conflict and war in middle east to boost gas prices up.
 
mello said:
Why would a Middle-Eastern hacker hack a Ron Paul website? He's the only candidate that wants to get us out of the Middle East.
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Are you joking? The Brotherhood wants Mr O in there! He is helping them take it over! LOL
 
what this hacker did won't give him access to donor info or anything, it literally just displays the page you see
 
I don't know what software revpac's website was running but this is not too uncommon. There's a lot of well known exploits to a lot of software and if the webmasters don't stay current they are subject to these things. A lot of software maintains the name or version numbers somewhere in the coding. Hackers such as this usually write programs to just search those terms. For example the software identifier at the bottom of this site "Powered by vBulletin® Version 4.1.5" a hacker would write a program to look for that in google search results and would hack the sites using known exploits because of lack of updating.

Also short of that plenty of hackers and groups have software that will run thousands of different types of write hacks and sql injections and just wait to see which one works.
 
mello said:
Why would a Middle-Eastern hacker hack a Ron Paul website? He's the only candidate that wants to get us out of the Middle East.
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I googled Prince Algeria Tiktak and see they've hacked a few other sites in the past day or two, but nothing related to the revolution. Maybe they have a way of seeking out sites that they can exploit or something?

I know nothing about this stuff. I remember in 2007, Duncan Hunter's site was hacked and the anti-illegal immigration people were convinced that it was the Mexicans masquerading as Turks.
 
For those who are drawing theories about the middle eastern stuff and foreign policy, etc, I can tell you from experience that it most likely has nothing to do with any of that and that the attack was most likely done by someone who doesn't even have any clue who Ron Paul or RevPAC are.

Hackers run scripts attempting to hack hundreds of thousands of websites using known exploits all the time. For whatever reason these attacks tend to come from places like China and the middle east. But they are typically done indiscriminately, it is very unlikely this was the result of someone specifically targeting RevPAC for any particular political reason.

Anyone who has ever been a server admin knows that you can look at a server log any day of the week and find attempted automated attacks from strange countries.

Also very unlikely any donor information was compromised.
 
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My wife moderates a forum having to do with a random recreational activity, nothing to do with anything, and they were randomly hacked a couple years back. The hacker turned out to be someone trying to win a contest at an annual hacker's convention in Las Vegas. Sometimes these things happen for no good reason.
 
Dang hackers, I randomly clicked the link and thought it was the "end game" for me. But a simply google search brought me back to hear (RPF), talk about full circle.
 
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most likely a script kiddie from Indonesia

anyone know what the site's pre-hacked software base was?
 
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